Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Cinnamon Streusel Raspberry Muffins

I've always been a bit of a muffin fan. My favourite are raspberry muffins topped with a lovely crunchy cinnamon streusel topping.

There are hundreds of muffin recipes out there and I've tried a good fair few of them. But I've finally found one that I'm entirely happy with.

Note added 14/4 - Made these with some cornmeal ( finely ground maize flour ) this morning and it produced a very nice light texture with a lovely golden colour. Replace 1/2 cup flour with 1/2 cup cornmeal.

This is a quick recipe. Thery can be prepped and in the oven in 10 minutes, ready to be served up warm on the breakfast buffet table.

Mix together the dry ingredients. Whisk the wet ingredients and pour into the dry. Mix together quickly with a large metal spoon. You mustn't overmix. The ingredients should be just combined.

Quickly fold in the fruit.
Take a 12 hole muffin tin and line with muffin cases. Spoon the mix into the muffin cases. I use an ice cream scoop for this to get even sized muffins.
Mix together the dry ingredients of the streusel topping together and add just enough melted butter to create a crumble topping. Sprinkle this over the muffins.
Put in an oven at about 180 degrees for about 25 minutes.
Eat warm!